Mark, Bernard

DOS BUKH FUN GVUREH: 1. BD. OYFSHTAND FUN VARSHEVER GETO [COMPLETE, NO MORE ISSUED] [COVER TITLE: HURVES DERTSEYLN-- : VEGN DEM OYFSHTAND IN VARSHEVER GETO] דאס בוך פון גבורה: 1. באנד. אויפשטאנד פון ווארשעווער געטא.

Lodzsh [Lodz]: Farlag "Dos Naye Lebn" 1947. Item #42058

1st postwar Yiddish edition (issued the same year in Moscow) of Ber Mark's centrally important work on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, published originally in Russian in 1944. Original multicolor illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 391 pages. Title translates into English as, “The book of Valor: 1. Volume. Uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto.” Includes dramatic portrait etching inside front cover. Written by a participant, the Polish historian, journalist and anti-Fascist activist, Bernard Mark (1908-1966) . “Mark narrates the events immediately preceding and during the 1943 armed uprising of Warsaw's Jews, and presents Jewish, Polish, and German documents pertaining to the Warsaw and other ghetto and camp rebellions. ” (Google Books, 2017) Copyright page lists title in Polish: "Ksiega Bohaterstwa. Tom pierwszy: Powstanie w ghetcie warszawskim." SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Mouvements de re´sistance juifs. Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Varsovie (Pologne) -- Histoire -- 1943 (Insurrection du ghetto) OCLC: 12010937. Spine rebacked, corner chip to front cover, other corner repaired, paper toning as expected. still attractive overall, a very nice copy. Our colleague offers a comparable copy for over $850.00. (Holo2-148-4A-ABXE-'l).

Price: $200.00